People - All

Name

Field of Interest

Nandini Abedin

Lecturer

abedin@uw.edu / 206-616-4603

Office Hours: Tuesdays, Thursdays 2:00-3:00pm

SMI 022

Bengali (Bangla), Language Pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition, South Asian

John Aguilar

Graduate Student in Chinese

johnsajr@uw.edu

Chinese, Han dynasty Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic (Huángdì Nèijīng Sùwèn 黃帝内經素問), Historical Linguistics, Philology, Textual Studies, Translation and Interpretation

Jameel Ahmad

Associate Teaching Professor
Language Testing Coordinator

jameel7@uw.edu / 206-543-6491

Office Hours: Tuesdays, Wednesdays 11:30am-12:20pm

GWN M231

Ghazal History Poetics and Translation, Hindi, Language Pedagogy, Literature, Poetry and Poetics, South Asian, Translation and Interpretation, Urdu

Tetiana Andriiuk

Graduate Student in Japanese

tanitaan@uw.edu

Japanese, Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Philology, Translation and Interpretation

Belle Arkham

Department Coordinator

asianpc@uw.edu / 206-543-4918

GWN 225

Juan Felipe Arroyave

Graduate Student in Japanese
Teaching Assistant in Japanese
GSA Colloquium Coordinator

tommib@uw.edu

Office Hours: Fridays 10:00-11:00am

GWN M230

Japanese, Japanese to Spanish Translation, Literature, Premodern Japanese literature, The works of Natsume Soseki, Translation and Interpretation

Juan Felipe Arroyave

Graduate Student in Japanese
Teaching Assistant in Japanese
GSA Colloquium Coordinator

tommib@uw.edu

Office Hours: Fridays 10:00-11:00am

GWN M230

Japanese, Japanese to Spanish Translation, Literature, Premodern Japanese literature, The works of Natsume Soseki, Translation and Interpretation

Paul S. Atkins

Professor
Japanese Program Coordinator

patkins@uw.edu / 206-543-4925

Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:00am-12:00pm

GWN M247

Classical and premodern Japanese language and literature, Drama, Japanese, Literature, Medieval, Poetry and Poetics, Premodern Asian Studies, Translation and Interpretation

Nazry Bahrawi

Assistant Professor
Southeast Asian Program Coordinator

nazryb@uw.edu / 206-543-3086

Office Hours: Mondays 2:30-3:30pm (and by appointment)

GWN 239

Animal Studies, Comparative Literature, Decoloniality, Folklore and Mythology, Literary Islam, Malay and Indonesian literature and film, Race and Ethnicity, Southeast Asian, Speculative and Science Fiction

Grace Barber

Graduate Student in Asian Languages and Cultures

gbarber1@uw.edu

Japanese

Davinder Bhowmik

Associate Professor
Associate Chair

dbhowmik@uw.edu / 206-543-4699

Office Hours: Thursdays 1:00-2:00pm

GWN M239

20th Century, 21st Century, Japanese, Literature, Okinawan fiction

Davinder Bhowmik

Associate Professor
Associate Chair

dbhowmik@uw.edu / 206-543-4699

Office Hours: Thursdays 1:00-2:00pm

GWN M239

20th Century, 21st Century, Japanese, Literature, Okinawan fiction

Yuqing Cao

Assistant Teaching Professor
Summer Sessions Coordinator

ycao@uw.edu / 206-543-8657

Office Hours: Thursdays 3:00-5:00pm

GWN 212

Chinese, Language Pedagogy

John Carlyle

Doctoral Candidate in Chinese

jtcarlyl@uw.edu

Chinese, Chinese dialects, Computational Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Old Chinese, Philology, Phonology, Rime Books

Ruiming Cash

Graduate Student in Chinese

rcash2@uw.edu

Chinese

Parker Cassidy

Graduate Student in Japanese

pcass97@uw.edu

Film/Cinema, Folklore and Mythology, Japanese, Literature, Novel/Prose Fiction, Translation and Interpretation

Amruta M. Chandekar

Lecturer

amrutc@uw.edu / 206-616-4603

Office Hours: Tuesdays, Thursdays 9:45-10:15am

SMI 022

Hindi, Linguistics, Literature, Narrative Theory, Pragmatics, Sanskrit, Semantics, South Asian, Syntax, Textual Studies, Urdu

Amruta M. Chandekar

Lecturer

amrutc@uw.edu / 206-616-4603

Office Hours: Tuesdays, Thursdays 9:45-10:15am

SMI 022

Hindi, Linguistics, Literature, Narrative Theory, Pragmatics, Sanskrit, Semantics, South Asian, Syntax, Textual Studies, Urdu

Liyao Chen

Doctoral Candidate in Chinese
Teaching Assistant in Chinese

lc6113@uw.edu

Office Hours: Mondays 3:30-4:30pm

GWN M224

Chinese, Historical Linguistics, Japanese, Korean, Philology, Textual Studies, Vietnamese, Writing Systems

Heekyoung Cho

Associate Professor
Korean Program Coordinator

hchohcho@uw.edu / 206-543-6937

Office Hours: Wednesdays 2:00-3:00pm

GWN M244

Digital Humanities, East Asian, Global and Transnational Studies, graphic narrative, Korean, New Media, Postcolonial, Textual Studies, Translation and Interpretation

Nicole Cho

Teaching Assistant in Korean

hsc75@uw.edu

Office Hours: Wednesdays 12:00-1:00pm

GWN M224

Education, Korean, Race and Ethnicity, Second Language Acquisition

SeaHee Choi

Assistant Teaching Professor

seahchoi@uw.edu / 206-221-9184

Office Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays 2:30-3:30pm

GWN M233

Applied Linguistics, Bilingualism, experimental linguistics, Korean, Korean linguistics, Language Pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition

Ying-Hsiu Chou

Doctoral Candidate in Chinese

chouhsiu@uw.edu

Chinese, Digital Humanities, Feminisms, Film/Cinema, Literature, Masculinities, Periodical Studies, Popular Culture, Transnational, Visual Culture

Avery (Wanmin Zhu) Clare

Graduate Student in Chinese

wmzhu@uw.edu

Chinese, Funeral Rituals, Literature, Medieval, Philology, Ritual Texts, Stele Inscriptions

Benjamin DeTora

Doctoral Candidate in Japanese
Teaching Assistant in Japanese

bdetora@uw.edu

Office Hours: Fridays 12:30-1:20pm

GWN M224

Burakumin, Film & Media Studies, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Japanese, Japanese Cinema, Minority Literature, Postwar Japanese literature, Visual Culture

Jamie Ding

Graduate Student in Japanese
Teaching Assistant in Japanese
GSA Book Sale Coordinator

jding815@uw.edu

Office Hours: Fridays 11:30am-12:30pm

GWN M230

Japanese

Jennifer Dubrow

Associate Professor

jdubrow@uw.edu / 206-543-4146

Office Hours: Fridays 1:00-2:00pm (online)

GWN M212

19th Century, 20th Century, Hindi, Modernism, Postcolonial, Print culture in South Asia, South Asian, Textual Studies, Urdu

Siyuan Fu

Doctoral Candidate in Chinese

siyuanf@uw.edu

Art History, Chinese, Early and Medieval China, Intellectual History, Literature, Literature and Other Arts, Medieval, Translation and Interpretation, Visual Culture

Yunhui Gao

Graduate Student in Chinese

gyunhui@uw.edu

Chinese Dialectology, Comparative and historical syntax, Historical Linguistics, Language contact

William Gershman

Graduate Student in Japanese
Teaching Assistant in Japanese

wgersh@uw.edu

Office Hours: Wednesdays 2:00-3:00pm

GWN M230

Japanese, Japanese online culture, Language Pedagogy, Literature, Localization of Japanese Popular Media, Translation and Interpretation

Emily Hall

Lecturer

emily4mi@uw.edu / 206-543-9375

Office Hours: Mondays 11:00am-12:00pm, Thursdays 2:00-3:00pm (on Zoom | Meeting ID: 2875828579)

SMI 020

Korean

John Christopher (Chris) Hamm

Professor
Chinese Program Coordinator

jcsong@uw.edu / 206-543-4974

Office Hours: Tuesdays, Thursdays 11:00am-12:00pm

GWN M245

Chinese, Film/Cinema, Literature, Novel/Prose Fiction, Periodical Studies, Popular Culture, Print Culture, Visual Culture

Gyeol Han

Graduate Student in Chinese
Teaching Assistant in Korean

gyeol@uw.edu

Office Hours: Mondays 1:30-2:30pm

GWN M226

Chinese, Comparative Linguistics, Etymology, Historical Linguistics, Linguistics, Philology, Premodern Asian Studies, Textual Studies, Writing Systems

Zev Handel

Professor
Department Chair

zhandel@uw.edu / 206-543-4996

Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:00am-12:00pm; Wednesdays 2:00-3:00pm

GWN 225

Asian writing systems, Chinese, Chinese Dialectology, Comparative Linguistics, comparative Sino-Tibetan linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Historical Phonology, Linguistics, Tibeto-Berman languages, Writing Systems

Shelby House

Predoctoral Instructor in Hindi

jshouse@uw.edu

Office Hours: Tu and Th 1:15 - 2 PM

CMU 218C (Simpson Center)

Animal Studies, Anthropology, Hindi, India, Pakistan, Urdu

Tzu-Lu (Lulu) Hung

Graduate Student in Japanese

tzuluh@uw.edu

Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Japanese, Literary Criticism, Literature, Postcolonial

Akiko Iwata

Assistant Teaching Professor
Japanese Language Coordinator

iwata3@uw.edu / 206-543-6628

Office Hours: Tuesdays 12:30-1:30pm (by appointment)

GWN 244

Japanese, Language Pedagogy

Justin Jesty

Associate Professor

jestyj@uw.edu

Office Hours: Tuesdays 12:00-1:00pm

DEN 343

Art History, Film/Cinema, Japanese, Literature, Visual Culture

Lisa Jiang

Graduate Student in Japanese

lisajsp@uw.edu

Japanese Media and Literature

JungHee Kim

Associate Teaching Professor

junghee@uw.edu / 206-543-7487

Office Hours: Mondays 9:00-10:00am (in person and online)

GWN M227

Korean

Ungsan Kim

Assistant Professor

sankim@uw.edu / 206-616-8060

Office Hours: Mondays 3:30-4:30pm

GWN 231

Asian Cinema, East Asian, Film/Cinema, Genre Films, Korean, Korean Cinema, Media Studies, Queer Studies, Southeast Asian, Visual Culture

Raechel Kundert

Graduate Student in Japanese

raech525@uw.edu

Comparative Linguistics, Culture, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Japanese, Language acquisition, Linguistics, Mongolian

Jonathan Laiman

Graduate Student in Buddhist Studies

jlaiman@uw.edu

Buddhist Manuscripts, Buddhist Studies, Early Buddhism, Meditation, Philology, Philosophy, Sanskrit

Grainger Lanneau

Doctoral Candidate in Chinese

gl38@uw.edu

Chinese, Comparative Linguistics, Historical Phonology, Japanese, Language Pedagogy, Philology, Southeast Asian, Translation and Interpretation, Vietnamese, Writing Systems

Diep Le

Lecturer

dieple@uw.edu / 206-543-9375

Office Hours: Mondays 12:00-1:00pm

SMI 020

Vietnamese

Han (Gloria) Lee

Graduate Student in Chinese
Teaching Assistant in Chinese

ghlee@uw.edu

Office Hours: Mondays 1:00-2:00pm

GWN M226

Chinese, Historical Chinese phonology, Historical Linguistics

Stephanie Liu

Graduate Student in Chinese
Staff Assistant in the Language Learning Center

hungyun@uw.edu

Chinese, Digital Humanities, Historical Linguistics, Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Poetry and Poetics

Nathan Loggins

Chinese Flagship Program Coordinator

chineseflagship@uw.edu

Office Hours: Mondays 12:30-2:30pm, Fridays 10:00am-12:00pm

GWN M216

Anthropology, Chinese, Comparative Linguistics, East Asian, History, Japanese, Linguistics, Race and Ethnicity

Chan Lü

Associate Professor
Chinese Language Coordinator

chanlu@uw.edu / 206-543-2757

Office Hours: Mondays 10:30-11:30am (Loew Hall commons)

GWN M214

Bilingualism and Biliteracy, Chinese, Immersion Education, Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Second Language Reading

Xi Ma

Assistant Teaching Professor

xima@uw.edu / 206-543-4805

Office Hours: Tuesdays 12:00-1:00pm

SMI 018

Chinese

Ted Mack

Professor

tmack@uw.edu / 206-543-4356

Office Hours: Not teaching Spring 2024.

GWN 248

Critical Theory, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Global and Transnational Studies, Japanese, Modern Japanese literature, Postcolonial, Race and Ethnicity

Nicholas Malik

Graduate Student in Japanese

nmalik06@uw.edu

Culture, Japanese, Literature, Translation

Joseph A. Marino, III

Cris & Melissa Upton Cyders Professor of Buddhist Studies
Assistant Professor
South Asian Program Coordinator

jamarino@uw.edu / 206-897-1584

Office Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays 10:30-11:20am

GWN M229

Buddhist Studies, Gandhāran Buddhist Literature, Philology, Religion, Sanskrit, South Asian, Translation and Interpretation

Izumi Matsuda-Kiami

Teaching Professor

matsuda@uw.edu / 206-543-0066

Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:30am-12:30pm, Wednesdays 1:00-2:00pm

GWN 250

Japanese, Language Pedagogy

Itsuko Nishikawa

Associate Teaching Professor

inishi@uw.edu / 206-543-4995

Office Hours: Mondays 1:00-2:00pm

GWN M248

Japanese, Language Pedagogy

Jordan Niver-Johnson

Graduate Student in Japanese
Teaching Assistant in Japanese

jniver@uw.edu

Office Hours: Wednesdays 3:00-4:00pm

GWN M230

Comparative Literature, Contemporary Japanese Literature, Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Localization, Translation

Daniel Ofori-Dankwa

Graduate Student in Japanese
Teaching Assistant in Japanese

dkofori@uw.edu

Office Hours: Fridays 2:15-3:15pm

GWN M230

Japanese, manga and comics theory, Twi language

Amy Snyder Ohta

Professor
Chair of Undergraduate Education

aohta@uw.edu / 206-543-6315

Office Hours: Wednesdays 2:00-3:00pm

GWN 247

Applied Linguistics, discourse analysis, Japanese, Language Pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition, social media, Sociolinguistics

Kaoru Ohta

Teaching Professor

kaoru@uw.edu / 206-543-6936

Office Hours: Tuesdays 12:30-1:20pm

GWN 246

Japanese, Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax

Sam Patwell

Graduate Student in Chinese

spatwell@uw.edu

Chinese, Literature, Popular Culture, Speculative Fiction

Heidi Pauwels

Professor

hpauwels@uw.edu / 206-543-4235

Office Hours: Wednesdays 10:30-11:20am

GWN 233

Classical and modern Hindi language and literature, Hindi, Hinduism, Literature and Other Arts, Religion, Sanskrit, Sanskrit language and literature, South Asian

Heidi Pauwels

Professor

hpauwels@uw.edu / 206-543-4235

Office Hours: Wednesdays 10:30-11:20am

GWN 233

Classical and modern Hindi language and literature, Hindi, Hinduism, Literature and Other Arts, Religion, Sanskrit, Sanskrit language and literature, South Asian

Gian Rominger

Assistant Professor

gromin@uw.edu / 206-212-9375

Office Hours: Thursdays 12:00-1:00pm

GWN M225

Chinese, Data Science in the Humanities, Digital Humanities, Intellectual History, Literature

Ben Rost

Department Assistant

asianll@uw.edu / 206-543-4996

GWN 225

Desiana Pauli Sandjaja

Teaching Professor
Southeast Asian Language Coordinator

sandjaja@uw.edu / 206-543-9170

Office Hours: Not teaching Spring 2024.

GWN M250

Indonesian, Language Pedagogy, Southeast Asian

Anna Schnell

Graduate Student in Japanese

aks90@uw.edu

Children's Literature, Comics, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Japanese, Literature, manga and comics theory, Popular Culture, Queer Studies, Science Fiction

Aidan Seipke

Graduate Student in Japanese

awseipke@uw.edu

Film/Cinema, Hibakusha Experience, Japanese, Modern Literature, Translation and Interpretation, War Literature

Zhifan Sheng

Graduate Student in Chinese
Teaching Assistant in Chinese

zfsheng@uw.edu

Office Hours: Fridays 12:00-1:00pm

GWN M226

Chinese Literature, Epistolary Culture, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Film/Cinema, Media Studies, Print Culture, Queer Studies, Sinophone Studies

Qinwei Shi

Graduate Student in Japanese

qwshi01@uw.edu

Culture, Japanese, Literature, Popular Culture

Haruki Shimonagane

Graduate Student in Chinese
Teaching Assistant in Japanese

hshimo@uw.edu

Office Hours: Fridays 12:30-1:30pm

GWN M230

Chinese, Early and Medieval China, Literature, Premodern Asian Studies

Jiwon Song

Graduate Student in Chinese
Teaching Assistant in Korean

jwsong08@uw.edu

Office Hours: Fridays 9:20-10:20am

GWN M226

Bilingualism, Chinese, Comparative Linguistics, Language acquisition, Linguistics, Writing Systems

Yingying Sun

Lecturer

sunyy@uw.edu / 206-685-2423

Office Hours: Mondays 12:30-1:30pm (in person), Wednesdays 12:30-1:30pm (online)

SMI 024

Chinese, Manuscript studies, Premodern Asian Studies, Textual Studies, Writing Systems

Fumiko Takeda

Assistant Teaching Professor

fumikot@uw.edu / 206-616-2113

Office Hours: Tuesdays 2:00-3:00pm

GWN 229

Japanese

Lui Tsumura

Teaching Assistant in Japanese

luit@uw.edu

Office Hours: Wednesdays 1:30-2:30pm

GWN M230

Bich-Ngoc Turner

Assistant Teaching Professor

turnerbn@uw.edu / 206-221-3362

Office Hours: Wednesdays 12:00-1:00pm (online)

GWN 235

Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing, Contemporary Vietnamese Literature, Language Pedagogy, Postwar Vietnam, Southeast Asian, Vietnamese

Kirk L. Van Scoyoc

Academic Counselor
Graduate Program Advisor

asianadv@uw.edu / 206-543-4997

Office Hours: Drop-ins usually available Monday-Friday: 9:00-11:30 AM and 1:30-4:30 PM

GWN 225

Ping Wang

Associate Professor
Graduate Program Coordinator

pingw@uw.edu / 206-543-4286

Office Hours: Thursdays 3:30-4:20pm

GWN M246

Chinese, Intellectual History, Literature, Medieval, Philology, Poetry and Poetics, Translation and Interpretation

Ping Wang

Associate Professor
Graduate Program Coordinator

pingw@uw.edu / 206-543-4286

Office Hours: Thursdays 3:30-4:20pm

GWN M246

Chinese, Intellectual History, Literature, Medieval, Philology, Poetry and Poetics, Translation and Interpretation

Linjia Weng

Graduate Student in Chinese

lynnn7@uw.edu

Chinese, Chinese dialects, Historical Linguistics, Old Chinese, Phonology, Proto-Min

EunYoung Won

Associate Teaching Professor
Korean Language Coordinator

woney@uw.edu / 206-543-4202

Office Hours: Mondays 12:30-1:30pm

GWN M235

Applied Linguistics, Computer assisted language teaching, Korean, Language Pedagogy

Sherry Xu

Graduate Student in Japanese
Teaching Assistant in Japanese
GSA Book Sale Coordinator

jinyuexu@uw.edu

Office Hours: Wednesdays 10:30-11:30am

GWN M230

Japanese

Anjali Yadav

Graduate Student in South Asian Languages and Literature

ayadav06@uw.edu

18th Century, Caste, Hindi, Historiography, Literature, Medieval Indian devotional literature, Translation and Interpretation, Women's Writings

Luoth Yin

Lecturer

luothy@uw.edu / 206-543-6931

Office Hours: By appointment

SMI 016

Khmer

Liping Yu

Teaching Professor

lyu@uw.edu / 206-685-0394

Office Hours: On sabbatical Spring 2024

GWN 214

Chinese, Language Pedagogy

Kaiyin Zhang

Graduate Student in Japanese
GPSS Senator

kayz@uw.edu

Japanese

Wenyue (Evangeline) Zhang

Graduate Student in Japanese

akagitan@uw.edu

Culture, Japanese, Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Literature

Jieyu Zhou

Graduate Student in Chinese
Teaching Assistant in Chinese

jzhou4@uw.edu

Office Hours: Mondays 10:30-11:30am

GWN M224

Bilingualism and Biliteracy, Chinese, Chinese Linguistics, First and Second Language Acquisition, Heritage Chinese

Shiwei Zhou

Doctoral Candidate in Chinese
Teaching Assistant in Chinese

zhousw23@uw.edu

Office Hours: Mondays 1:30-2:30pm

GWN M224

Chinese, Intellectual History, Literature, Translation and Interpretation

Xi Zhu

Doctoral Candidate in Chinese

xizhu@uw.edu

Chinese, Early Chinese texts, Early Medieval Chinese Poetry, Manuscript study

Yan Zhu

Lecturer

yanzh@uw.edu / 206-221-2077

Office Hours: Wednesdays 2:00-3:00pm

SMI 024

Chinese

Frances Zielonka

Department Administrator

asianlladmin@uw.edu / 206-616-7428

GWN 225

Emeriti Faculty

Nyan-Ping Bi

Teaching Professor Emeritus of Chinese

npbi@uw.edu

Chinese, Language Pedagogy

Frederick Brandauer

Professor Emeritus of Chinese

Chinese

Collett Cox

Professor Emeritus of Sanskrit

collett@uw.edu

Buddhist Studies, Indian Buddhism, Indian philosophy, Pali and the Prakrits, Philosophy, Religion, Sanskrit, South Asian

Wiworn Kesavatana-Dohrs

Lecturer Emeritus of Thai

dohrs@uw.edu

Language Pedagogy, Music, Southeast Asian, Thai

David R. Knechtges

Professor Emeritus of Chinese

knechtge@uw.edu

Chinese, Chinese literary history, classical prose, fu, Han and Six Dynasties literature, Literature, Premodern Asian Studies, Wen xuan

Prem Pahlajrai

Associate Teaching Professor Emeritus of Hindi

prem@uw.edu

Advaita Vedanta, Hindi, Language Pedagogy, Philosophy, Sanskrit, South Asian

Richard G. Salomon

William P. and Ruth Gerberding University Professor Emeritus of Sanskrit

rsalomon@uw.edu

ancient Indian history, Buddhist Studies, Epigraphy, Gandharan studies, History, Pali and the Prakrits, Sanskrit, South Asian

Michael C. Shapiro

Professor Emeritus of Hindi

hindimcs@uw.edu

Hindi, Historical Linguistics, Indo-Aryan languages and linguistics, Linguistics, Literature, South Asian

Anne Yue-Hashimoto

Professor Emeritus of Chinese

anneyue@uw.edu

Chinese, Comparative Linguistics, Diachronic and Synchronic studies in Dialectology, Grammar and Phonology; Typology; Field work; Language contact; Areal linguistics; Oracle-bone inscriptions, Historical Linguistics, Linguistics, Philology

Adjunct/Affiliate Faculty

People - Adjuncts & Affiliates
Name	Title	Email/Phone
Lien, Y. Edmund	Affiliate Assistant Professor, Chinese Literature	elien@uw.edu
Novetzke, Christian	Adjunct; Professor in the Jackson School's South Asia, Comparative Religion, and International Studies Programs	novetzke@uw.edu 206-543-6142
Tsujihara, Rie	Affiliate Assistant Professor	rtsuji@uw.edu
Mawkanuli, Talant	Adjunct; Teaching Professor in Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures	tmawkan@uw.edu 206-616-5616
Braester, Yomi	Adjunct; Professor in Cinema and Media Studies	yomi@uw.edu 206-221-6639